New Street Art Worth Stopping For (16 Photos, Vol. 45)

A chrome octopus leads this round of new street art

A peacock spreads its tail across a horse stable, a giant bee and a butterfly land on walls, and a figure reaches for a star. Tap Love beneath your favorites.

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🌿 “Regard sur l’Avenir” — Kundo Colors in Saint-Brieuc, France 🇫🇷

A woman’s profile is surrounded by pink, red, yellow and gray leaves, flowers and angular bands of color.

Kundo Colors presented the work as “Regard sur l’Avenir”, painted during the fifth edition of Saint-Brieuc’s Just Paint festival, held July 23–26, 2026. Shared by Blue Bicycle in Paris.

💡 What We Could Verify: The griffin—a mythical creature combining an eagle and a lion—has been Saint-Brieuc’s emblem for several centuries.

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🦚 “Manfred (der Pfau)” — Roberto Schwuchow at Tierpark Zittau, Germany 🇩🇪

A blue peacock spreads its tail across a small horse stable. The painted greenery meets the grass and trees around it.

Schwuchow calls the work “Manfred (der Pfau)”. Tierpark Zittau says he painted the Huzulenstall wall live during its summer festival on August 1, 2026 at Weinaupark 2a.

💡 What We Could Verify: The Hucul is a Carpathian mountain pony breed once used as a pack and draft animal. Tierpark Zittau estimates that only about 2,000 purebred Huculs remain worldwide.

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🤖 “Amicitia / Ambición” — Trepo Parker in Zapopan, Mexico 🇲🇽

A hooded figure looks up at a towering blue machine as it extends one hand. In Trepo Parker’s original post, the machine asks, “What is your ambition?”

The artist identifies it as a 5 × 10 meter work for a collector, with the characters painted entirely with aerosol paint over a vinyl paint background.

💡 What We Could Verify: The Latin noun amicitia means “friendship”; in Roman political life, the same word could also describe an alliance based on common interests.

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🎨 Blue Portrait Across Three Panels — Matley Hurd in San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸

A deep-blue face fills three painted panels, surrounded by loops, dots and rounded shapes in orange, turquoise, red and yellow.

Hurd painted the piece live at Pier Party at Sunset, an event produced by Fisherman’s Wharf with Into the Streets SF on July 25, 2026, at the Triangle Lot, 2820 Taylor Street.

💡 What We Could Verify: Hurd calls each of his recurring figures a “Star Goddess”—his interpretation of God and a symbol of the idea that people create their own universe.

🔗 Follow Matley Hurd on Instagram.

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🧩 A Portrait Built From Place — Sidartha Omar in San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Mexico 🇲🇽

A woman looks out from a long mural filled with decorated loaves of bread, geometric patterns and blocks of color. In the festival’s artist video, Sidartha Omar identifies her as an Indigenous woman from Mitla and connects the fragmented and rejoined forms to local identity and traditions.

The mural was created for the fourth Festival Internacional de Murales Mitla, held July 3–11, 2026, following an invitation from the Pitao Bezelao cultural collective.

💡 What We Could Verify: The name Mitla comes from the Nahuatl Mictlán; its Zapotec name, Lyobáa, is translated as the “resting place” of the dead.

🔗 Follow Sidartha Omar on Instagram.

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🐙 A Chrome Octopus on Red — Bikismo in West Palm Beach, USA 🇺🇸

A chrome octopus stretches across a red wall, with tiny reflections painted across its body and arms.

Bikismo documented the mural as a West Palm Beach work, created for West Palm Walls in collaboration with Justkids.

💡 What We Could Verify: Real octopus skin can also produce metallic-looking effects: light-reflecting cells called iridophores create iridescent greens, blues, silvers and golds, while leucophores mirror surrounding colors.

More by Bikismo: Bull by Chrome Master Bikismo in Puerto Rico.

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🟣 A Portrait Between Shapes — Mica One in Bad Waldsee, Germany 🇩🇪

Flowers, circles and cream-colored strokes overlap a purple face.

Mica One documented the August 2, 2026, session with Erase and Slash DKB at Wall of Fame Bad Waldsee, the legal mural wall at the skate park in Freizeitpark am Stadtsee.

💡 What We Could Verify: According to his studio biography, Mica One is a trained artist and professional stage painter who has worked in graffiti since 1995 and as a tattoo artist since 2013.

🔗 Follow Mica One on Instagram.

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🐝 A Bee Lands on the Wall — Comanda Colore 13 in Bagnolet, France 🇫🇷

A giant honeybee stands on honeycomb against a smoky background, with finely detailed wings and a fuzzy body.

Comanda Colore 13 says the mural was painted during “Dernière Dance” in La Noue and takes its idea from the honeybee’s waggle dance—the movements bees use to communicate direction and distance. The 2022 work was painted on Rue de la Noue in Bagnolet for B_Attitude.

💡 What We Could Verify: A forager changes the angle of its waggle dance as the sun moves because the code records direction relative to the sun, not to a fixed compass bearing.

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🧶 “As Tres Mouras” — Alejandro Mosquera García in Rianxo, Spain 🇪🇸

Three stylized figures, animals and patterned objects fill the gable in orange, blue and gold. Local coverage explains that the scene refers to the three mouras of Pozo Bastón: a man throws three loaves of bread to free them, but one loaf has been bitten, leaving one moura lame.

The mural was created for VILADOMAR on the Escola de Buía at Aldea Buía 3A in Araño; the school is part of CRA de Rianxo. The festival’s artist video tells more of the story behind the mural. Photo by AIGI BOGA.

💡 What We Could Verify: In Galician folklore, mouras are magical beings associated with wells, springs, ancient earthworks and hidden gold.

🔗 Follow Alejandro Mosquera García on Instagram.

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🦋 Blue Wings on Dark Brick — Dopie and Esone in Arnhem, Netherlands 🇳🇱

A pale-blue butterfly spreads across a dark-green brick wall beside pink flowers and a soft-edged magenta sphere.

Tom Linnenbank says the painting was commissioned by the Municipality of Arnhem in Malburgen. Municipal district manager Bianca van der Weijden credits Linnenbank (Dopie) and Pedro Dentinho (Esone) and says the wider painting project took place in the squares of Immerloo II.

💡 What We Could Verify: The name Lepidoptera comes from the Greek words for “scale” and “wing,” referring to the tiny scales covering butterfly and moth wings.

More by Dopie: Violin by Dopie in Delft, Netherlands (5 Photos).

🔗 Follow Dopie / Tom Linnenbank and Esone / Pedro Dentinho on Instagram.

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🔥 “CLRSVMPRZ” — Artkor Bagdad in Rennes, France 🇫🇷

A face is partly covered by red, violet and gray strokes swept sideways across the wall.

Artkor Bagdad’s original post names the piece “CLRSVMPRZ” and thanks Mélissa Follet for the invitation to the jam. It stands at La Coulée Verte in Rennes.

💡 What We Could Verify: Artkor Bagdad is self-taught and has painted exclusively with spray paint since 2011; his biography also notes his 300-square-meter mural for Padua’s Super Walls biennial.

🔗 Follow Artkor Bagdad on Instagram.

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🎨 Figures on a Yellow Facade — Thomas Kubig in Opfikon, Switzerland 🇨🇭

One woman raises a paintbrush while another figure turns away. Their patterned clothes spread across adjoining yellow wall panels.

The mural was painted at Graffland, Zunstrasse 26. Photo by Rahel Lam.

💡 What We Could Verify: Graffland occupies a former wastewater-treatment plant. The legal graffiti complex provides weather-protected walls, ladders, scaffolding and lifts for painters.

🔗 Visit Thomas Kubig’s website and follow Cup of Color on Instagram.

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😠 A Halo Above a Dark Portrait — CISE in Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Spain 🇪🇸

An intense face is painted in black and brown beneath a small orange halo.

CISE shared the piece from a Saturday painting session with Carmona A13, ZZ Rock and Masi4theworld.

💡 What We Could Verify: Medieval halos were not always round. By the eighth century, square halos identified living donors, bishops and popes.

🔗 Follow CISE on Instagram.

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🔴 Red Characters Beneath Green Beams — Rater, Cruze and Hersk in Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱

Red, black and gray characters fill the wall beneath green beams, mixed with sharp lettering and mechanical shapes. The collage supplied by the source combines a view of the full wall with a close-up.

Cruze’s original carousel credits the production as “Rater / Cruze / Hersk”, tagging Racing Rat 81, Cruze and Ero JWP respectively.

💡 What We Could Verify: Ero JWP is also a rapper: Polish Radio identifies him as a JWP member and records Elwis Picasso (2019) as his solo debut.

🔗 Follow Racing Rat 81, Cruze and Ero JWP on Instagram.

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🐶 A Smoking Dog Among Peacock Feathers — Snake, Sane Two and DaCruz in Paris, France 🇫🇷

A smoking dog appears among peacock feathers, faces and purple-green patterns. The collage pairs the full wall with a close-up of the dog.

Snake says the wall was painted over two half-day sessions with Sane Two and DaCruz in Paris’s 19th arrondissement. The photographed section stands at 13 Rue Adolphe Mille.

💡 What We Could Verify: Snake’s biography dates his street practice to 1990, while the City of Paris says DaCruz began tagging the 19th arrondissement when he was around ten or twelve in the 1980s.

More by DaCruz: Mural by DaCruz in Paris, France.

🔗 Follow Snake, Sane Two and DaCruz on Instagram.

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⭐ “To the Star” — Nikita Nomerz in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 🇷🇺

A fragmented grayscale figure reaches toward a star above its outlined frame, crossed by long blue lines. A person at the base shows the mural’s scale.

Nomerz calls the work “To the Star” and describes the star as a goal or dream, while the figure’s separate fragments represent the experiences that gradually form a person. Painted on a Metro Bridge support on Chernigovskaya Street, it is one of four works created through a joint project by GloraX and PUBLICART. Photo by Ilya Bolshakov.

💡 What We Could Verify: Nomerz supplied the text and materials for a 352-page encyclopedia of Nizhny Novgorod street art, covering the years 1980–2020 and containing 644 photographs. The print run was 1,000 copies.

More by Nikita Nomerz: 17 Times Nikita Nomerz Brought Walls to Life.

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